In 2017 september btc price under 3000$.However it jumped to 18000$ in the begining of this month and now it around 13000$.Will it jump back to 18000$ or more in 2018 january

Read news about BTCitcoin and ethereum. Which is indeed fact that 2017 is the year for Bitcoin. Is Bitcoin stopping here already? Or still on its way to $100,000? I just hope that. But I love ETH to go up more also. And I think it will be a year for both BTCitcoin and etherem.
 https://www.coindesk.com/2017-bitcoins-year-2018-will-ethereums/ 

Need more idea. Any thoughts about that?

Actually, we cannot predict what will happen in the future. The prices might gets higher or lower and that's the normal transactions in Bitcoin. You might get much profit if you just hold you Bitcoin since last year until today. Bitcoin really performs well as you can check the graph. Investing in Bitcoin will give you much income if you hold it for a long period of time. For me, investing in Bitcoin is for long term while Altcoins are only for short term investments. But it's really depends on your risk appetite and goals in trading.

Hi everyone, glad to see this busy forum available for n00bs like me.

I am new to trading, so I am not familiar with all of the various order terms (stop loss, trailing stop order etc.) Basically I found some bitcoin I had bought years ago and want to play with it a little bit, and set up a few automatic trades. I tried first with Coinbase but found they disabled stop orders and such, I thought maybe I could do it through an App as I read somewhere coinbase has an open api with possibility to execute things via external apps, but that sounds a bit complex and unreliable option.

I simply want to buy bitcoins when the price hits $X,000 and sell when it hits $Y,000. These trades should be executed immediately and without my input. I think this is called a stop order? But in any case, when researching how to do this i came upon Kraken, but after looking further it seems these types of "advanced orders" have been disabled.

Now when I look at the buy/sell fields in Kraken it seems this is possible to setup currently. So i'm confused, can I do the above now with Kraken, or not? And what is the best way to do this, it seems fairly straight forward, as I understand it. This order would be executed when the price of bitcoins >= 15000/usd. And it should be executed automatically without any input from me (checking the skip order confirmations). It would sell .06666667 of my bitcoins, or 1,000 USD worth.

https://imgur.com/a/ZXrZU

When can you say the price of bitcoin is already or nearly bubble?

Do you expect that the price will dump in coming years?

Edit: On this year how is the bitcoin value soaring ... What I mean is how fast....

Everybody looks like a bloody genius in the bull market. You can easily double your money in a month, or even a week if you pick well / get lucky. But it can't and won't last. Enjoy while it does and make sure you withdraw your initial deposit with healthy interest

Let's Bitcoin takes off. Say you lived in the US and had an online service that dealt in the equivalent of ~20,000 USD or more income for you (personally). What are the laws for income tax on a currency like this? Can you get in trouble with the IRS by simply having tons of BTC that the market values at (currently) almost 5$ per BTC?

With the unpredictable changes in bitcoin price people have chose to hold instead of day trading,I mean the majority have.
How risky is day trading at the moment?

I'm cautiously optimistic about the potential of BTC for 2018 but I'm also considering converting 5% of it to alt coins that also have great potential.

So I think it would nice if you could suggest some solid alt coins with great potential and explain in a few sentences why you believe that. If your explanations makes sense to me, I will obviously dig deeper to know more about the coins.

I'm currently looking at LTC, XMR, ZEC and ETH but i don't have make a final decision yet.

i am kinda new to Cryptocurrency .
i am going great in stocks. its really technical and fundamental kinda investments
as i see Cryptocurrency its alot more easy to invest and forget
should i shift to Cryptocurrency and start investing without tension and stress?

Some stocks will do very well and some stocks will do poorly. Also some cryptocurrencies will do well and some will do poorly. I think the big difference is that all cryptocurrencies are high risk and many are extremely high risk. With stock I think you will have anything from very low risk to very high risk. So you can find low risk stocks but I don’t think you will find low risk cryptocurrencies. Diversifying will protect your investment and allow you to reap some reward if one of those does well.

Why would I want to keep BTC in my investment portfolio? That's most hyped and quite overvalued coin I'd say.
There are other more technologically advanced coins. Is it because of "digital gold" and store of value properties?

Yes, the 1 million bitcoin of the dead person will still exist, but won't move anymore because no one can make them move from a wallet to another.
This, so far, explains too why bitcoin supply is limited, and decreases with time. Now it's compensated by btc mined, but mining won't last forever (bitcoin income for miners decreases every 4 years).

Maybe yes, other most of the country has been yet legalize. Few of them, but in our country, even the government dont know what bitcoin means. And i think it is possible to be ban if they know it.

Eth has increased more than 20 times during this year, litecoin 33.

Monero more than 40, and ripple more than 60.

Do you really think that if you invest in one of those you are going to be millionaire in sometime? You already missed the train

I currently have LTC, ETH, SUB, SNM, WABI as part of my portfolio

Im looking to add a few more coins. Which one of these would this sub recommend from each category? Im looking for the best combination of high upside for 2018 and long term safeness.

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Thank you...good idea about stk i joined the stk bounty and i think that it will be a very good ico

I missed the dip the other day and am wondering if I should hold out for another dip or if the current prices are still decent. Mainly looking at litecoin and etherum. I also need coins regardless so I can exchange for other altcoins.

There is a huge-ass wall of like 1200 BCH-BTC buys on Bitstamp, to ensure that the BCH won't go below 0.21 BTC, causing BTC drops whenever the BCH drops... manipulation again. A real whale willing to buy so many, would have bought much lower yesterday.

I wonder if there's a similar wall on other exchanges? It's not too abrupt on Bitfinex.

I see a lot of walls popping up & disappearing all the time in BCH trading - from all sides to make prices pump & dip. More than usual.

I think the media is basing their argument that bitcoin is dangerous on its financial volatility, I haven't seen many references to bitcoin being used by terrorists and so on. The main argument is that bitcoin looks like a bubble, even if it's not a bubble it is too unpredictable and volatile anyway, so it's dangerous.